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Updated: May 12, 2025
The worship of the goddesses, described in their Hinduized form as Durgâ, Kâlî, etc., though found in most parts of India was specially prevalent in the sub-himalayan districts both east and west. Now Padma-Sambhava was a native of Udyâna or Swat and Târanâtha represents the chief Tantrists as coming from there or visiting it.
They are each alike approached by flights of steps in the centre of the four sides of the edifice. The deities represented are in the northern chamber, Durga; in the western, Ganesa; and in both the southern and eastern, Guru. The connection between Siva and the Rama epic is this.
Before the door of a dungeon Umballa paused and listened. There was no sound. He returned upstairs and sought a chamber near the harem. This he entered, and stood with folded arms near the door. "Ah, Colonel Sahib!" "Umballa?" Colonel Hare, bearded, unkempt, tried to stand erect and face his enemy. "You black scoundrel!" "Durga Ram, Sahib. Words, words; the patter of rain on stone roofs.
He said, using many bad words: 'This much mercy will I do to you Durga Dass, though there was no mercy in your dealings with my sister's son over the matter of the dun heifer. Has any man a pony on which he sets no store, that this fellow may escape? Kirpa Ram, the jat, said: 'I have a pony very sick. But with beating he can be made to walk for two miles.
As Durga is the most terrific of all of Siva's wives, and delights in death, torture, bloodshed and every form of destruction, the Hindus are very much afraid of her and the peace offerings left at this temple are more liberal than at the others, a fact very much appreciated by the priests.
If all the animals slain throughout Hindostan, at the festival of the goddess Durga, were collected together, they would amount to a much larger number than Solomon offered. After the worship and offerings have been continued for three days, the festival closes. As the morning of the first day was devoted to the consecration of the images, the morning of the fourth is spent in unconsecrating them.
Among such forms we find the ten Mahâvidyâs, or personifications of her supernatural knowledge; the Mahâmâtris, Mâtrikâs or the Great Mothers, allied to the aboriginal goddesses already mentioned; the Nâyakas or mistresses; the Yoginîs or sorceresses, and fiends called Ḍâkinîs. But the most popular of her manifestations are Durgâ and Kâlî.
Going up to him, I asked "What is this concourse of people? Why do you sit here alone, away from the others?" He answered: "A long time ago, the king of this country, having no children, made many prayers and offerings to the goddess Durgâ, in the hope of propitiating her.
Here they remained huddled together till the storm died away. "It has blown itself out," commented the chief. Then he spoke to Ramabai. "Who is this man?" with a nod toward the colonel. "He is an American." "He came for Allaha?" "Yes," said Ramabai unsuspiciously. "Ha! Then that great prince did not lie." "What prince?" cried Ramabai, now alarmed. "The Prince Durga Ram.
There were two of us, and we were born of one birth, but I swear to you that I was born the first, and Ram Dass is the younger by three full breaths. The astrologer said so, and it is written in my horoscope the horoscope of Durga Dass. But we were alike I and my brother who is a beast without honour so alike that none knew, together or apart, which was Durga Dass.
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